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60 son, Alexander Robert Charles, after serving with distinction as a British officer through the Peninsular war and at the battle of Waterloo (where his cousin Charles was wounded), entered the Anglican priesthood, following his cousin's ex- ample, and became eminent as the organizer of missions in the west of Ireland. He was the au- thor of many popular devotional books. — Another distinguished member of the family in Great Britain was Sir George, a political author, b. in London in 1758 ; d. in 1883. His principal publi- cation was a work entitled " Thoughts on our Pres- ent Situation, with Remarks on the Policy of a War with France " (179o).

DALLING, Sir John, British soldier, d. in 1798. He served under Loudoun as major of infantry in 1757, was engaged at Louisburg in 1758, and com- manded a body of light infantry under Gen. Wolfe at Quebec in 1759. He was made lieutenant-colo- nel of the 43d foot in 1760, and commanded the regiment at the siege of Havana in August, 1762. In 1767 he was appointed lieutenant-governor, and a few years later governor, of Jamaica. He was promoted major-general in 1777, conducted an ex- pedition against the Spanish colonies in 1780, be- came lieutenant-general in 1782, and was made a baronet in 1783.

DALSHEIMER, Alice, poet, b. in New Orleans, La., 1 Dec., 1845; d. there, 15 Jan., 1880. Her maiden name was Solomon. She received her education in the city schools, and in 1865 became a teacher, in her examination as to qualifications standing at the head of 250 applicants. She married, in 1867, Mr. Dalsheimer, a lawyer, and gave up teaching, but resumed it in 1873, when she became principal of the girls' department of a school under the management of the Hebrew educational society, where she remained until 1878. Her writings consist of numerous sketches, short stories, and poems, principally the latter, all of which appeared in the daily papers of New Orleans under the pseudonym of &ldquo;Salvia Dale,&rdquo; but have never been collected and published in book-form. Of her poems, those entitled &ldquo;Motherhood&rdquo; and &ldquo;Twilight Shadows&rdquo; are among the best.

DALTON, John, R. C. bishop in Newfoundland, d. in Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, in April, 1869. He was nominated bishop on the creation of the see in 1856, and was consecrated the same vear.

DALTON, John Call, physiologist, b. in Chelms- ford. 3Iass., 2 Feb., 1825: d. in New York, 11 Feb., 1889. He was graduated at Harvard in 1844. and at the medical department in 1847. His attention was directed to physiology, and in 1851 he ob- tained the annual prize offered by the American medical association by his essay on " Corpus Lu- teum." Subsequently his researches on the anato- my of the placenta, the physiology of the cere- bellum, intestinal digestion, and other experiment- al observations, embodied in his treatise on physi- ology, gained for him a reputation as one of the first of modern physiologists. He became profes- sor of physiology in the medical department of the University of Buffalo, and was the first in the United States to teach that subject with illustra- tions by experiments on animals. This chair he resigned in 1854, and accepted a similar professor- ship in the Vermont medical college in Woodstock, where he remained until 1856. From 1859 till 1861 he filled the chair of physiology in the Long Island college hospital in Brooklyn. During the winter of 1854^'5 he lectured on physiology at the College of physicians and surgeons. New York, temporarily filling the place of Dr. Alonzo Clark. In 1855 he was elected to that professorship, which he continued to fill initil his resignation in 1883. In 1884 he again succeeded Dr. Clark as president of the College of physicians and surgeons. Dur- ing the civil war he was a surgeon in the national service, going to Washington in 1861 in that ca- pacity with the 7th New York regiment. Subse- quently he was appointed surgeon of volunteers, and held important offices in the medical corps until his resignation in March, 1864. Dr. Dalton had been an active member of many medical soci- eties, and held prominent offices in them. In 1864 he was elected a member of the National academy of sciences. His contributions to the literature of physiology had been numerous since 1851. He had published articles in the " American Journal of the Medical Sciences," the " Transac- tions of the New York Academy of Sciences," the " American Medical Monthly," and other medical journals in New York ; and also many valuable articles in his specialties in the American and other cyclopaedias. He hadpublished in book-form " A Treatise on Human Physiology " (New York, 1859 ; 6th ed., 1882) ; " A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene for Schools, Families, and Colleges " (1868) ; " The Experimental Method of Medicine " (1882) ; '* Doctrines of the Circulation " (1884) ; and " Topographical Anatomy of the Brain " (1885). — His brother, Edward Barry, physician, b. in Lowell, Mass., 21 Sept., 1834; d. in Santa Barbara, Cal., 13 May, 1872, was graduated at Harvard in 1855, and at the College of physicians and sur- geons. New York, in 1858. Dr. Dalton then set- tled in New York, and was resident physician of St. Luke's hospital when the civil war began. He at once volunteered as a surgeon, and served from April, 1861, till May, 1865. At first he was a medical officer in the navy, after which he was commissioned surgeon of the 36th New York vol- unteers, and subsequently surgeon of U. S. volun- teers, serving as medical inspector of the 6th army corps, and as medical director of the Depart- ment of Virginia. In March, 1864, he was trans- ferred to the Army of the Potomac, where he re- mained throughout the campaign of that year, from the Wilderness to City Point, having charge of all the wounded, and establishing and moving the hospitals. At City Point he was made chief medical officer of tiie "depot field-hospitals, Ai'my of the Potomac, till the final campaign in March and April, 1865, when he accompanied the troops as medical director of the 9th aj-my corps. After his discharge he was successively appointed brevet lieutenant-colonel and colonel of volunteers. In March, 1866, he was appointed sanitary superin- tendent of the New York metropolitan board of health, in which office he remained until his resig- nation in January, 1869. In 1869 he originated the present city ambulance system for the trans- portation of the sick and injured. His health had then begun to fail, and, after trying various resorts, he finally visited California, where he died from consumption. He published papers on " The Dis- order known as Bronzed Skin, or Disease of the Supra-renal Capsules " (1860) ; '- The Metropolitan Board of Health " (1868) ; and " Reports of the Sanitary Superintendent of the Metropolitan Board of Health " from 1866 till 1869.

DALTON, Tristram, senator, b. in the part of the town of Newbury that afterward became Newburyport, Mass., 28 May, 1738 ; d. in Boston, Mass., 30 May, 1817. He was prepared for college in Dummer academy, Byfield, under Samuel Moody, and graduated at Harvard in 1755. He then studied law, but engaged in mercantile pursuits with his father-in-law, Robert Hooper, and attend-